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Patent GB-925529-A (GB)
Abstract: 925,529. Transducers; solions. UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION. June 2, 1961 [June 9, 1960], No. 19916/61. Classes 40 (4) and 40 (9). A solion has at least one electrode of which at least the active surface portions are composed of a carbide, nitride, silicide or chloride of titanium, zirconium, hafnium, vanadium, niobium, tantalum, chromium, tungsten or molybdenum. Preferably each electrode comprises a substate of tantalum and a surface layer of tantalum carbide. The embodiment described is a log detector which gives a current output which is a logarithmic function of the applied acoustic pressure. The housing 10 is divided into two compartments by an apertured partition 12, and the diaphragms 14, 16 constitute walls of the respective compartments. An electrode 18 having a small orifice 20 and insulated except at the orifice by a layer 21 of soft glass is mounted in the partition 12, and the compartments are filled with liquid electrolyte composed of a redox system such as potassium iodide-iodine. Two anodes 22, 24 are provided, one in each compartment, the electrode 18 being the single cathode. Application of pressure to one of diaphragms 14, 16 causes liquid flow through the orifice 20 and the resulting current flow is measured. Tantalum carbide electrodes may be made by electrically heating tantalum wire to 2900‹ C. in a carbonaceous, non-oxidizing atmosphere. The electrodes may be used in solions operating as linear detectors, integrators or product detectors.
Patent GB-2264225-A (GB)
Title: Vacuum cleaning tool for wet and dry vacuum cleaners
Inventor: WOERWAG PETER
IPC: A47L9/04
Filed: 1993-02-17
Abstract: A vacuum cleaning tool for wet cleaning has a casing with a suction opening (53) in its base and a connection for a vacuum line. A roller brush (13) is mounted in a chamber (7) above and projecting into the suction opening (53). The brush (13) is rotated by an air turbine (19) in a flow duct (10) so as to be driven by the vacuum flow. A wet vacuum duct (70) is provided parallel to the brush chamber (7) and the flow duct (10) running between a wet suction opening (71) at the base of the tool and the vacuum line connection. A switchable flow blocking device (80, 81) is provided in the wet vacuum duct (70) and in the flow duct (10). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2277747-A (GB)
Title: Electroplating elongated substrate e.g wire and drawing
Inventor: HUGHES ANDREW
IPC: C25D5/48
Filed: 1993-09-13
Abstract: In a method of continuously coating a conductive substrate such as brass wire (10) to produce a desired cross-sectional size of coated material, the wire is drawn through a first die to produce an oversize wire, electroplated in a bath (32), and then drawn through a final die (44) to reduce its area to the desired size and produce a controlled surface finish. The wire may be cleaned in an acid bath (20) and rinsed in a rinsing bath (30) prior to the electroplating bath. A further rinsing bath (36) and dryer (38) may be interposed upstream of the final die (44). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2270756-A (GB)
Title: Liquid level control devices
Inventor: EVANS ROBERT HENRY FREDERICK
IPC: G05D9/12
Filed: 1993-09-15
Abstract: Attached to the side of the tank 1, to be filled with liquid, is a small container 4 which is interlinked with the tank by a tube 5 connected to a tee-piece 6 providing entry at 7 to the tank. An outlet supply line 8 also leads off from the tee-piece 6. As the level of the liquid rises within the tank 1, liquid ultimately enters the container 4 to a level 9 equivalent to the level 3 within the tank 1. As the level within the container 4 rises a magnetic float 10 of a switch 11 is carried up so as to break the electrical connection of a solenoid which controls inflow of liquid to the tank 1 through an input line 12. By providing for measurement of the liquid level outside the tank 1, problems due to turbulent flow, in particular, are significantly reduced. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2276964-A (GB)
Title: Buffering write cycles.
Inventor: TOROSSIAN JAMES
IPC: G06F12/0804
Filed: 1994-03-30
Abstract: A buffer system, operating as an array of contents addressable temporary storage locations, buffers write cycles between a processor and locations in main memory so that the processor is not constrained by the write cycle times of other devices. If an address is rewritten before the previous write data has left the buffer, the data of the previous write cycle is overwritten with the new data. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2275559-A (GB)
Title: Alarm console installation
Inventor: SCAROLA KENNETH
IPC: G21D3/00
Filed: 1990-10-31
Abstract: A multi-panel computer driven console controls a power plant, in which a plurality of major plant functions are performed. The console is installed by installing at least two generic panels in a control room; wherein each generic panel includes a generic hardware configuration and a generic software configuration and testing the generic panels with test parameters to confirm the interaction of the generic hardware configuration with the generic software configuration. In addition, outside the control room and in parallel with at least one of the steps above a plant specific software configuration which has plant specific parameter processing algorithms is prepared, after which the plant specific software configuration is integrated with the generic panels in the plant control room to define final panels. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2289497-A (GB)
Title: Lock and seal assembly actuated by expansion of intumescent material
Inventor: MANN ROBERT MCGOWAN
IPC: E06B5/16
Filed: 1994-05-17
Abstract: A heat activatable seal assembly for providing, on activation, a seal between opposed first and second relatively movable members such as doors 12, the assembly including a locking latch member 32 movably mounted in a housing mounted on the first movable member for movement between a retracted position shown and an extended position whereat it projects from the first movable member to mechanically lockingly engage with a latch receiving member in the form of a cavity 41 mounted on the second movable member, and intumescent material 34 located between the latch member and the housing which on intumescence expands to move the latch member to its extended position. The cavity 41 preferably contains a sacrificial plastics sealing member 50 which melts on heating. Intumescent material is preferably located behind a movable retention member in the cavity 41. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2289850-A (GB)
Title: Demountable multi-function exercise apparatus
Inventor: MATTOO SUKHRAJ SINGH
IPC: A63B21/00
Filed: 1994-05-31
Abstract: The exercise apparatus comprises a seat 11, a bench 12 and, mounted between them, lever arms 1, 2 or other drive mechanism which will power a braked flywheel 7. The drive mechanism can be used from the seat or from the bench. The whole apparatus can be easily packed away. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2280815-A (GB)
Title: Microscopic mirror array projection device
Inventor: HARA NOBUYUKI
IPC: G02B26/08
Filed: 1994-07-14
Abstract: Light reflected from the mirror deflection type light modulators 2R, 2G, 2B are focused into images at a position right in front of the projection lens, and are partly turned and focused onto the two-dimensional position detector 42. In accordance with a test pattern fig. 8, the detector can detect the vertical and horizontal positions of the formed images. Based on the detected information from the two-dimensional position detector means, the mirror deflection type light modulators are finely displaced in the vertical and horizontal directions, or the mirror deflection type light modulators are finely displaced in the vertical direction and the synthesizing mirrors 10R, 10G, 10B are finely displaced in the direction of focal length, so that the positions of the reflected beams of at least two mirror deflection type light modulators are adjusted. Thus the discrepancy of positions among the colors can be effectively corrected and the image quality can be considerably improved. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2283674-A (GB)
Title: Tubular waste outlet fitting for a bath or basin
Inventor: LAMBERT GEORGE
IPC: E03C1/244
Filed: 1994-09-20
Abstract: In a bath or basin (1), a tubular waste outlet fitting, which also acts as an overflow, comprises a shaped hollow body (6) open at its upper end (11) and with a lower portion (3) which fits into the drainage hole (4). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2293193-A (GB)
Title: Fall arrest device
Inventor: FLUX PETER ROBERT
IPC: A62B35/04
Filed: 1994-09-19
Abstract: A fall arrest device has a locking cam 13 pivotally mounted on a body part 11 which is engaged with a safety cable 10. A cover 18 is pivotally mounted on the body part 11 to receive loading applied to the device in a direction towards the cable 10, whereupon the cover 18 is pivoted to apply the loading directly to the cam 13 via roller 20, in order to bring the cam 13 into its locking condition with the cable 10. Without this cover action, loading applied towards the cable 10 would result in the device being maintained in its unlocked condition. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2283985-A (GB)
Title: Dyeing process and auxiliary
Inventor: BAUMANN HANS-PETER
IPC: D06P3/66
Filed: 1994-11-15
Abstract: Dyeing of cellulosic substrates with reactive dyes in the presence of at least 20 g/l of sodium chloride, employing auxiliaries (E) of levelling activity, which are methylene-bridge-containing and sulpho-group-containing aromatic compounds, obtainable by condensation of a mixture of a sulphonated derivative of at least one aromatic hydrocarbon with 9 - 18 carbon atoms, eg napthalene derivatives, and at least one optionally alkylsubstituted diphenyl ether or diphenylthioether, with formaldehyde or a formaldehyde-yielding compound in an acidic medium.
Patent GB-2288429-A (GB)
Title: Coil clamp
Inventor: INOUE YASUHIKO
IPC: H01J9/236
Filed: 1995-02-27
Abstract: A coil clamp 10 which holds a coil 42 at a predetermined position, and conforms to variations in the thickness of brackets. The coil clamp includes a flange 20 provided at an end of a flat elongated base member 12, an elastic claw 36 which projects from the flange, a curved clamp band 40 extending from the elongated base member to form a holding space for holding the coil, a pressing tongue 50 obliquely extending from the elongated base member toward the opening of the holding space, and a mechanism 52 provided in the clearance between the pressing tongue and the elongated base member to prevent the coil from entering into the clearance. The coil clamp is used to hold a degaussing coil wound around a periphery of a cathode-ray tube. The coil clamp is attached to an attaching hole of a bracket provided at a peripheral edge of the cathode-ray tube by the elastic claw 36 and the flange 20. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2288785-A (GB)
Title: Load handling trolley
Inventor: KORDEL WOJCIECH JOSEPH
IPC: B65G67/20
Filed: 1995-04-11
Abstract: A load handling trolley which normally operates in a channelled track comprises an elongate load engager (1) raisable and lowerable relative to bogies (11) via ramp and roller mean (19,17) when the bogies are caused to move longitudinally relative to the load engager. Relative movement is controlled by a lever operated crank (3) which is pivotally mounted with respect to the elongate load engager and which operates link means (9) pivotally connected between the crank and a bogey chassis. In order to limit the angular movement between the link means and the bogey chassis to permit raising of the load engager when partially projecting an end beyond the end of the channelled track an abutment (25,27) is operable between the link means and the bogey chassis, additional angular movement of the lever operated crank is required to attain the limit position and this is allowed for by relieving (6) an end plate of the trolley to allow further angular movement of the crank actuating lever. Also described is means (30) positioned to the loading and trailing ends of the trolley to provide cleaning of the full width of the channelled track.
Patent GB-2301264-A (GB)
Title: Computer network interface and interface protocol
Inventor: OSBORNE RANDY B
IPC: H04L12/54
Filed: 1995-05-26
Abstract: A network protocol and interface using direct deposit mess aging provides low overhead communication in a network of multi-user computers. This system uses both sender-provided and receiver-provided information to process received messages and to deposit both data and control information directly where they are needed: data in memory and control information in conditionally/optionally interrupting a host processor. Message processing is separated into data delivery, which bypasses the host processor and operating system, and message actions which may or may not require host processor interaction. In this protocol, a message includes an indication of the operation desired by the sender, an operand specified by the sender and an operand which refers to some information stored at the receiver. The receiver ensures that the desired action is permitted and then, if the action is permitted, performs the action according to both the operand specified by the sender and the state of the receiver. The action may be message delivery, wherein the operands in the message specify values for use in various addressing modes including direct, indirect, post-increment and index modes. The action may also be conditionally generating an interrupt, wherein the operands are used, in combination with the receiver state, to determine whether a message requires immediate or delayed action. The action may also be an operation on a register in the network interface or on other information stored at the receiver. The network interface and protocol are intended for use with local-area networks. Specializations of this interface and protocol are particularly applicable to asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) networks. The network interface includes endpoints which may be nested and overlapped, address registers which may be organized into windows which may be nested and overlapped, address register protection and integration of exception handling and flow control.
Patent GB-2306556-A (GB)
Title: Air bag clip
Inventor: LO LUKE
IPC: B65D33/16
Filed: 1995-11-02
Abstract: An airtight clip device for inflation nozzle of an air bag. The clip device includes a clip seat 1, a clip board 2 and a folding section 3 foldably connecting the clip board with the clip seat. The clip seat is disposed with two hook edges 11 on two sides and multiple clip teeth 12 are arranged on the clip seat between the hook edges. Multiple clip teeth 21 are formed on the clip board in cooperation with the clip teeth of the clip seat. The clip board is foldable onto the clip seat to be fixedly inserted between the hook edges thereof with the clip teeth of the clip board engaged with the clip teeth of the clip seat so as to airtightly clip and seal the inflation nozzle.
Patent GB-2309113-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle hazard warning system
Inventor: LUCAS ROBERT
IPC: G09F21/04
Filed: 1996-01-15
Abstract: This Hazard Warning System is designed in the form of a warning triangle 1 using an all weather fabric that is highly reflective in daylight hours and it also incorporates a border that represents a skeletal triangle 2 of flexible material that is designed to reflect powered light at night. The Hazard Warning System is constructed of several reflective fabric materials and is designed to fold away into a small flat pack that can be easily stored in the vehicle. When the vehicle is at a standstill and represents a hazard to other road users the Hazard Warning System can be quickly unpacked and easily fixed to the exterior of the rear of the vehicle using the plastic suction fixing points 4. The precise location for fixing the Warning System may vary slightly from vehicle to vehicle, however, it is intended that it is secured externally on the rear window (Fig 2. Fig 3). An additional security fixing is offered through the use of a lanyard 5, which fixes behind a closed door or window (Fig 4). The top apex 3 of the triangle which may protrude over the roof line, may be stiffened.
Patent GB-2298151-A (GB)
Title: :Drain cleaner machine
Inventor: SQUIER WILLIAM HUMPHREY RANDAL
IPC: B07B1/10
Filed: 1996-02-19
Abstract: A machine for cleaning stones in French drains comprises at least one motor vehicle on which is mounted: collection means 2 for removing stones from the drain 42, agitation means 8 for removing dirt from the stones, means 16 for washing the stones, transport means 6, 20, 22 for moving the stones from the collection means 2 through the agitation means 8 and the washing means 16 and then returning the cleaned stones to the drain 42.
Patent GB-2297573-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for separating a well stream
Inventor: KJOS TORE
IPC: E21B43/38
Filed: 1994-09-30
Abstract: A process and process equipment are described for gas separation (H2S - CO2 separation), gas drying (H2O separation) and stabilisation and separation of condensates and produced water, with the reinjection of H2S, CO2 and H2O by using membranes (31, 33, 36). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2302767-A (GB)
Title: Ensuring full coupling of an electrical connector
Inventor: YAMASAKI MASASHI
IPC: H01R13/641
Filed: 1996-06-25
Abstract: A coupling comprises a connector 2 having an opening 22 into which a detection pin 6 can extend, and a counterpart 4 formed with a recess 34 for receiving the detection pin 6 when the connector and counterpart are mated. The pin 6 has a cam surface 40 which, as the pin enters the connector 2, engages a projection 36 in the recess 34 of the counterpart 4 to draw the connector 2 and counterpart 4 fully together. The pin 6 then prevents pulling forces from uncoupling the connector and counterpart. The location of the cam 40 and the projection 36 near the centre line of the coupling prevents cam action causing a twisting moment. The connector 2 may be mounted in a hole in a panel (figures 11 to 13, not shown) by latches 64. The counterpart 4 is first inserted through the hole and fully mated with the connector 2 before the connector in latched into the hole. If the counterpart 4 is not fully mated, the pin 6, extending from the connector 2, obstructs the mounting of the connector in the hole.
Patent GB-2303783-A (GB)
Title: Dust cover for a facsimile
Inventor: LEE JEON-HO
IPC: H04M1/02
Filed: 1996-07-26
Abstract: A facsimile machine is disclosed which includes a main body 213 having a key operation panel 214 and a dust cover 200. The dust cover 200 is adapted to cover the main body 213 and the key operation panel 214 such that the key operation panel 214 may still be used, thus protecting the facsimile machine whilst maintaining its basic functions. This is achieved by making the dust cover 200 from flexible transparent or translucent material formed to have the same configuration as the key operation panel 214.
Patent GB-2316831-A (GB)
Title: Improved User Terminal Access in Satellite communication Systems
Inventor: MUNOZ-GARCIA SAMUEL G
IPC: H04B7/15
Filed: 1996-08-24
Abstract: A satellite communications system comprises satellites 9A-C, earth stations 7A-E, user terminals 11 and controlling gateways 3 in the form of mobile satellite switching centres 5A-E. Access with a user terminal 11  may be gained to a terrestrial telephone system 1 by earth stations 7A-E contacting the satellites 9A-C and by the satellites contacting the user terminals 11. The satellites 9A-C periodically broadcast messages indicative of the earth station 7A-E with which they are instantly in contact. The user terminal 11 listens to and logs these broadcasts to keep a list of the relative number of times each earth station 7A-E can be heard. When calling into the system, the user terminal pages earth stations in descending order of number of entries in the log. When in contact, the user terminal 11 sends the log to the system. When subsequently trying to contact the user terminal 11, the system uses earth stations in descending order of number of entries on the log, last received from the user terminal.
Patent GB-2301368-A (GB)
Title: Aqueous resin composition process for producing the same and use therof
Inventor: KANETOU NORIYUKI
IPC: C09D155/00
Filed: 1995-05-26
Abstract: An aqueous resin composition produced by copolymerizing polypropylene, polyethylene, a propylene-ethylene-* small Greek alpha *-olefin copolymer or a product of degradation thereof by heat, an oxidizing agent or a free-radical generator with 0.1-20 wt.% of at least one member selected from the group consisting of acid anhydrides, carboxylic acids and alcohols, each having a radical-polymerizable double bend, to thereby give a modified polyolefin having a weight-average molecular weight of 1,000 to 100,000, mixing or dissolving 80-10 parts by weight of the obtained polyolefin and 20-90 parts by weight of at least one acrylic or methacrylic monomer, and polymerizing the resultant mixture or solution in water in the presence of a surfactant and polymerization initiator. The composition not only is excellent in the tenacious adhesion to polyolefins, but also adheres to other organic and inorganic materials, and is excellent in safety, hygiene and prevention of environmental pollution because it scarcely contains an organic solvent.
Patent GB-2317857-A (GB)
Title: Folding mechanism
Inventor: HUANG LI-CHU CHEN
IPC: B62B7/06
Filed: 1996-10-01
Abstract: A folding mechanism for connecting a handle 10 and a support 30 of a pushchair comprises an upper member 51 having a sprung switch 501 pivotally mounted within a notch 511 therein, said switch having a stepped engagement surface 502, and a lower member 52 having a cooperating stepped engagement surface 521 thereon. The spring for the switch is a coil spring 513 received within a channel 512 in the upper member which may abut a boss 503 on the switch.
Patent GB-2311287-A (GB)
Title: Process for producing hexafluoroethane
Inventor: OHNO HIROMOTO
IPC: C07C19/08
Filed: 1996-12-16
Abstract: A process for producing hexafluoroethane which comprises reacting a hydrofluorocarbon containing two carbon atoms in the molecule with fluorine gas at an elevated temperature in a vapor phase in the presence of a diluent gas.
Patent GB-2321453-A (GB)
Title: Ceramic body containing zirconium silicate
Inventor: PADLEY HUGH
IPC: C04B41/86
Filed: 1997-01-25
Abstract: A ceramic body contains zirconium silicate and may also comprise a clay, especially a Special Standard Porcelain clay, a flux and silica, all these components having a low content of iron, manganese and titanium. Articles made from the body are glazed and fired.
Patent GB-2319444-A (GB)
Title: Compensating frequency characteristic of audio signal
Inventor: LEE HAI-WOOK
IPC: H03K5/22
Filed: 1997-01-31
Abstract: An apparatus for compensating a frequency characteristic of a reproduction audio signal removes noise from the reproduction signal in the high-frequency region during reproduction of the audio signal, and then emphasizes the noise-removed reproduction signal, thereby improving the frequency characteristic of the reproduction signal. The apparatus includes a high-pass filter 32 for passing only a high-frequency component of the reproduction signal, a clipper 34 for generating a clipped signal by cutting off a signal between predetermined levels from the high-pass filtered reproduction signal, and an adder 36 for superposing the clipped signal on the reproduction signal to emphasize a high-frequency signal. The apparatus improves the frequency characteristic of a signal during reproduction and enhances a signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio by removing a noise component in the high-frequency region of the reproduction signal and controlling the level of the reproduction signal. A non-linear amplifier 33 may be interposed between the filter 32 and the clipper 34.